Multi-picker mechanism for automatic banking machines

Multi-picker mechanism for picking notes one at a time from a note supply stack in an ATM housing, including a primary picker member having a suction type picker cup;

• a secondary picker member having a rubber tired roll rotatable in one direction only adapted frictionally to engage a note;
• means for selectively engaging the primary and secondary members for operation in unison or for disengaging the secondary member from the primary member so that the primary member acts alone to pick notes;
• means for moving said picker members in various directions with respect to the note surface of a note being picked to grip the note surface, to distort its shape, and to dislodge, separate and pull such note from the stack of notes of which it forms a part;
• means for controlling the operation of said multi-picker mechanism to switch the mechanism from one of two operative modes to the other and vice versa, depending upon the type of notes being picked, when a picking failure occurs;
• and means actuated by said picker members moving means to supply suction to said picker cup.

Multi-picker mechanism for picking notes one at a time from a note supply stack in an ATM housing, including a picker housing;

• primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• secondary picker means switchably engageable with or disengageable from the primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• means for operating the primary picker means to pick notes from a note supply stack;
• and means enabled by the occurrence of a picking failure resulting from differing note conditions selectively to engage or disengage the secondary picker means with or from the primary picker means to reestablish picking operations.

Multi-picker mechanism for picking notes one at a time from a supply stack in an ATM housing of notes having variable age and limpness characteristics randomly arranged in the stack, including a picker housing;

• primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• secondary picker means switchably engageable with or disengageable from the primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• means for operating the primary picker means to pick notes from said note supply stack;
• and means enabled by the occurrence of a picking failure during operation of the primary picker means to engage the secondary picker means with the primary picker means to reestablish picking operations.

Multi-picker mechanism for picking notes one at a time from a supply stack of new paper money notes in an ATM housing, including a picker housing;

• primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• secondary picker means switchably engageable with or disengageable from the primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• means for operating the primary and secondary picker means engaged together to pick notes from said note supply stack;
• and means enabled by the occurrence of a picking failure to disengage the secondary picker means from the primary picker means to reestablish picking operations.

Multi-picker mechanism for picking notes one at a time from a note supply stack in an ATM housing, including a picker housing;

• primary picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• secondary switchable picker means mounted in the picker housing;
• means for operating the primary and secondary picker means in a first mode locked together to pick notes from a note supply stack;
• means for unlocking the secondary picker means from the primary picker means to operate said primary picker means alone in a second mode to pick notes from said note supply stack;
• and means for switching said secondary picker means from one mode to the other when a picking failure occurs during operation in said one mode.

Multi-picker mechanism for picking notes one at a time from a note supply stack in an ATM housing, including a primary picker member having a suction type picker cup;

• a secondary picker member having a rubber tired roll rotatable in one direction only adapted frictionally to engage a note;
• means for selectively engaging the primary and secondary members for operation in unison or for disengaging the secondary member from the primary member so that the primary member acts alone to pick notes;
• means for moving said picker members in various directions with respect to the note surface of a note being picked to grip the note surface, to distort its shape, and to dislodge, separate and pull such note from the stack of notes of which it forms a part;
• and means for controlling the operation of said multi-picker mechanism to switch the mechanism from one of two operative modes to the other and vice versa, depending upon the type of notes being picked, when a picking failure occurs.

Picker mechanism for picking notes through an ATM note container access opening one at a time from a note stack held under pressure in said container, including, first suction picker means;

• second friction engageable picker means;
• lock means for said second picker means movable between locked and unlocked status, respectively to couple the second picker means to or to uncouple the second picker means from said first picker means;
• means actuated by a picking failure to move the lock means from locked to unlocked status and vice versa depending upon the status of the lock means when picking failure occurs;
• and means for actuating the first and second picker means and said lock means to pick notes from a note stack.

In a picker mechanism for picking notes from an ATM note container access opening one at a time from a note stack held under pressure in said container;

• note engageable friction picker means including a lever arm, a lever pivot shaft, one end of the lever arm being fixed to said pivot shaft;
• a plate;
• means mounting the plate for movement toward and away from said stack;
• rubber tired roller means rotatably mounted on one-way clutch means on the other end of said lever arm;
• means pivotally mounting the pivot shaft on the plate;
• releasable means for locking the lever arm and pivot shaft against pivotal movement on the plate;
• and means for moving the plate toward and away from said stack;
• whereby movement of the plate, when the lever pivot shaft is locked against pivotal movement on the plate, toward said stack moves said pivot shaft toward said stack and moves the rubber tired roller means toward and through said access opening into the container to press said roller against the stack pressure, and then moves the roller means along the stack in one direction along a note to be picked;
• and whereby subsequent movement of the plate away from said stack moves the roller means, frictionally engaged against the stack pressure with said note to be picked, in the other direction along the stack to strip said note from the stack and to move said note out of the container through the access opening as the roller means moves away from the stack.